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Plans for the Great American Eclispe, Aug 21, 2017


jburns

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It is just over 3 months away now.  Prime viewing in our area so what are your plans? A possibility of a meet-up? Wife and I plan on being somewhere inside the totality belt. At my age, this could be my last one. What are your plans?

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  On 5/11/2017 at 5:33 PM, jburns said:

It is just over 3 months away now.  Prime viewing in our area so what are your plans? A possibility of a meet-up? Wife and I plan on being somewhere inside the totality belt. At my age, this could be my last one. What are your plans?

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Just another day. I'm in the totallity belt , I believe. It'll just like a cloud crossed the sun for a few minutes. 

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  On 5/11/2017 at 5:33 PM, jburns said:

It is just over 3 months away now.  Prime viewing in our area so what are your plans? A possibility of a meet-up? Wife and I plan on being somewhere inside the totality belt. At my age, this could be my last one. What are your plans?

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I was just talking about this yesterday.  No plans as of yet.

 

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  On 5/12/2017 at 1:36 AM, jburns said:

If you are serious we just might.

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I am serious  :lol:   It's the farm where my son in law (and his family) have worked for many, many, many years. There's honestly nothing there but peanuts, cotton and tractors   :) 

  On 5/12/2017 at 1:38 AM, Cold Rain said:

I think we're gonna pack up and head toward the Greenville area.

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Anderson/Greenwood wouldn't be as crowded as Greenville I don't think. Ninety Six historical site made my short list of places I'd travel to for this ;)

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  On 5/12/2017 at 2:07 AM, buckeyefan1 said:

I am serious  :lol:   It's the farm where my son in law (and his family) have worked for many, many, many years. There's honestly nothing there but peanuts, cotton and tractors   :) 

 

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OK,  Let's make it a tentative date.  I am just planning on getting up really early and driving down that day and back afterward.  Google says 4 hour drive.  I will allow much more due to the unusual traffic. I'll avoid passing through Charlotte and Columbia by coming down through Rockingham and then taking Rt 1 and 601.

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  On 5/12/2017 at 2:14 AM, jburns said:

OK,  Let's make it a tentative date.  I am just planning on getting up really early and driving down that day and back afterward.  Google says 4 hour drive.  I will allow much more due to the unusual traffic. I'll avoid passing through Charlotte and Columbia by coming down through Rockingham and then taking Rt 1 and 601.

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Sweet! :D   It's just under 4 hrs taking the interstate, speeding under 10 over, and 1 pit stop...lol. #1 and #601 will be a pretty drive ;) 

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  On 5/12/2017 at 2:07 AM, buckeyefan1 said:

I am serious  :lol:   It's the farm where my son in law (and his family) have worked for many, many, many years. There's honestly nothing there but peanuts, cotton and tractors   :) 

Anderson/Greenwood wouldn't be as crowded as Greenville I don't think. Ninety Six historical site made my short list of places I'd travel to for this ;)

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I hear Simpsonville is nice!!!??? We are almost dead center of totality path!! Hope it don't shift like a Euro snow map! :(

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  On 5/12/2017 at 1:20 AM, jburns said:

Nope. I've been in one total eclipse. It's special.

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Absolutely, the only total eclipse I have seen was when I was a wee lad in Eastern NC on March 7, 1970.  It definitely made an impression on me; I remember it well.  I don't have a game plan yet for the upcoming eclipse, I do have visions of epic traffic jams.

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  On 5/12/2017 at 2:24 PM, Moonhowl said:

Absolutely, the only total eclipse I have seen was when I was a wee lad in Eastern NC on March 7, 1970.  It definitely made an impression on me; I remember it well.  I don't have a game plan yet for the upcoming eclipse, I do have visions of epic traffic jams.

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Remember it well. Second grade with shadow boxes and pieces of dark film. Tracked right up the east coast with Raleigh close to the best total track. I think it was slightly east of us though.

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  On 5/12/2017 at 3:09 PM, frazdaddy said:

Remember it well. Second grade with shadow boxes and pieces of dark film. Tracked right up the east coast with Raleigh close to the best total track. I think it was slightly east of us though.

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Yes, it was a bit east of Raleigh; my father loaded us into the family truckster and we went to somewhere near Clinton to experience totality.

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